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Move to the Netherlands
Descartes leaves Paris and settles in the Netherlands to pursue research with greater privacy.
Historical place archive
Browse historical events and people recorded at Netherlands in France. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.
Descartes leaves Paris and settles in the Netherlands to pursue research with greater privacy.
Descartes withholds The World after learning that Galileo has been condemned for supporting heliocentrism.
Descartes begins composing the Meditations on First Philosophy as a foundation for the sciences.
Begins war against the Dutch Republic.
Provenance
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